The Technocrat - Vol. 3 - No. 4 - September 1937

The TECHNOCRAT

NEWSMAGAZINE OF R.D. 1 18 3 3- 1 18 34 TECHNOCRACY INC.

CONSTRUCT THE NEW AMERICA

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EDITORIAL

lour Y#»ai*M l^ilor

In 1933 when the analysis and proposal of
of Technocracy, Inc., was front page news, one of
the voluminous reports of the Price System econ-
omists, politicians, and soothsayers was that pub-
lished by the Brookings Institute at Washington,
D. C. This outstanding "refutation" was accepted
with the usual awe attached to any such document
even though never read nor understood by a peo-
ple whose traditions have conditioned them to
consider names and personalities rather than fact-
ual information.

During the ensuing fifty-three months of so-
called depression and boom, trembling economists
have fallen back in bewilderment on the Brookings
Report. To quote from it was a source of optimism
and reassurance to them, (even tho things did not
seem quite all right).

In the early part of August, 1937, at an address
before the Maryland Bankers' Association at At-
lantic City, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, president of
the Brookings Institute stated: M . * , The rate of
recovery has been slower and more halting than is
normally the case." He qualified it with: "That
is to say, the recoveries from great depressions of
the past, once under way, have proceeded to a new
climax very much more rapidly than has been the
case in the present instance/' He further states
that other countries in the world are making a bet-
ter recovery than the U. S.

Dr, Moulton could answer many of the prob-
lems he makes confusing, by reviewing the analy-
sis and proposal that his institute "refuted" in
1933. He would find that the slow recovery rate
he refers to in the U. S. is not a recurrent "business
cycle' 1 of highs and lows but rather the closing
era of our American Fric -e System. Such devices
as the buying of gold from abroad, the injections
of financial aid into corporate enterprise and the
spending of billions in direct relief have all failed
to bring about a balance between production and
consumption. Recoveries in other countries have
no bearing one way or another on our problem.
Their task is the distribution of a scarcity; ours
the distribution of an abundance. The problem be*
fore the people of the North American Continent is
mass distribution which cannot be accomplished
by a medium of exchange but will result from the
use of a means of distribution, i. e. The Distribu-
tion Certificate of The Technate of America.

Dr. Moulton is obviously mainly worried about
business cycles and recoveries therefrom. Tech-
nocracy has shown that distribution can be made
to balance production by the removal of price con-
trol, thus ending all so-called business cycles.

THK TKOIXOCRAT

The TECHNOCRAT

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Volume 3 SEPTEMBER, 1937 Number 4

EDITORIAL _ 2

What If* Technocracy? S

G H Q — Scott Tour Started 4

TECHNOLOGY—

Ily urology 4

\iw Machines am* Processes .5

NON -TECH NOCK ATS—

Quoted __. 6

ExpoMd „ , 7

ARTICLES —

"Convention si rid Ethics** 8

Drinking Water 9

"Dated Employment" 10

MOVIE REVIEW—

"Mr. Deeds does to Town 11 9

"Let's Get Married" 1ft

ACTIVITIES 10

FINANCE - U

SCOTT TOUR ITINERARY 12

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THE TECHNOCRAT

What Is Technocracy?

The advance of Technology on the North American continent
through the ever increasing use of extraneous (other than human) energy
is bringing about the first major social change in history.

Technocracy is not agitating for this change; it is preparing for it.

Technocracy is the science of social engineering, the scientific oper-
ation of the entire social mechanism to produce and distribute goods and
services to the entire population of this continent. For the first time in
human history it will be done as a scientific, technical engineering problem.
There will be no place for Politics or Politicians, Finance or Financeers,
Rackets or Racketeers.

Technocracy states that this method of operating the social mech-
anism of the North American Continent is now mandatory because we have
passed from a state of actual scarcity into the present status of potential
abundance in which we are now held to an artificial scarcity forced upon
us in order to continue a Price System which can distribute goods only by
means of a medium of exchange. Technocracy states that price and
abundance are incompatible; the greater the abundance the smaller the
price. In a real abundance there can be no price at all. Only by abandon-
ing the interfering price control and substituting a scientific method of
production and distribution can an abundance be achieved. Technocracy
will distribute by means of a certificate of distribution available to every
citizen from birth to death.

The Technate will encompass the entire American Continent from
Panama to the North Pole because the natural resources and the natural
boundaries of this area make it an independent, self-sustaining geographi-
cal unit. Technocracy's blue -prints have been designed for this continent
and for no other. It is an American Plan for the American continent, No
imported political philosophies including Democracy are in any way ap-
plicable.

1940 or before is the calculated date for the breakdown of the Price
System dictating the need for the Technate. This calculation is based
upon the relentless, inevitable increase in the use of extraneous energy as
a substitute for human labor. By 1940 there will not be enough money in
pay envelopes to purchase the goods produced. The government is al-
ready making up the difference with money raised by borrowing and tax-
ation. There is a limit beyond which this cannot go. The financial col-
lapse of private industry and of government, which will accompany the
approaching social change, will be a symptom and not a cause.

Lesson XXI of Technocracy Study Course states, 'The welfare
of the human beings involved is of ultimate and paramount importance/'
Every individual on the American continent will, under Technocracy,
achieve a standard of living with security from birth to death that is
wholly impossible even for the most favored citizens today.

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1 14 ll\OL4M.Y

%% liiU* IJiflil TiiImvs

The bright red, green and yellow hues in our
present advertising signs are the result of the gas
Deofi treated by a special process and energized by
electricity. George Claude, French inventor, has
perfected a combination of rare gases, which, when
sealed into glass tubing and energized by electricity
produces a white light. Actual tests have shown
that this tubing, when sealed with a pre-treated
mixutre of krypton and xenon emits a white light
that is as superior to electric lights as our pres-
ent electric lights are to kerosene lamps.

In his factory, at Boulogne, France, he is
treating 33,000 cubic meters of air per hour and can
produce enough krypton and xenon for the man-
ufacture of seven million light tubes per year. The
cne reason we do not have a white light tubing at
present is that little electrical energy is required
to operate them, hence, smaller monthly bills to
consumers of electrical energy. Homes will be bet-
ter illuminated at a small fraction of the present
cost when the now existing interference ccntrol of
public utilities is eliminated.

A ii I oimtt i«* IColioi

It is common knowledge that fatigue of pilots
is the cause of many accidents and that one great
cause of pilot fatigue is the strain associated with
constantly watching the very numerous dials now
on tht modern airplane instrument panel. There
has been invented , patented, thoroly proven and
tested in flight a set of instruments for airplanes
that will reduce accidents and save life, These
Instruments do not, however, add to the multi-
plicity of instruments but simply show a red light
when anything is wrong with any instrument.
Thtis only when a red Ught appears does a pilot
have to look at any instrument.

The inventor has offered to give his patents to
any airplane company that will agree to use them.
None have accepted. He also offered his patents
free to a large corporation that makes airplane in-
struments, with the following result : The cor-
poration agreed that the instruments were much
needed but shirr tliry hati not yet made back the
money invested in previous patents they could not
invest in this new one. These officials acting in a
perfect Price System manner realize they must pro-
tect the investment. Price and investment will not
exist under a technological control however, there-
fore there will be no interference with functional
efficiency-

Automatic 4 'mil $t»|»nra1or

G. A, Glasscock of the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce calls attention to an English scientific
development. An automatic machine that separates
coal into chunk sizes ranging from two inches to
eight inches has been perfected by the Birtley
( 'ompany of County Durham.

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Svnit Tour Siiu-H'fl

The starting gun of the Howard Scott Contin-
ental Tour— Fail 1937, was fired at Cleveland, Ohio,
on August 22nd at a monster outdoor picnic. The
appended Tom- Itinerary shows the task that is be-
ing undertaken by the Director-in-Chief of Tech-
nocracy, Inc., accompanied by Harold Fczer of the
headquarters' staff.

Proof of the vitality of the organization of
Technocracy, Inc., lies in the magnitude ^>f the un-
dertaking and in the following significant facts.
The tour as so far planned will pass through twen-
ty states and five Canadian Provinces, will be 15,000
miles in extent, with stops in forty-one Canadian
and forty-one U S. cities, will take four months*
time during which the following strenuous program
will be carried out: 115 lectures, 100 dinners, over
200 conferences and interviews, 20 radio broad-
casts.

Furthermore, the entire set-up is Technocracy's
show; tens of thousands of people will be coming to
Technocracy to hear its message. Also, every-
where, the Director-in-Chief will be greeted by
Technocrats, and he will speak at meetings ar-
range J by already existing sections of Technocra-
cy, Inc.

Significant, too, is the fact that the entire Tour
will be financed by local sections. There will be no
sponsoring by any Price System group — no foods
or commodities or services will be advertised in ex-
change for contributions. There will fce no special
train carrying an entourage of time-servers who
expect, after the Tour, to be appointed Postmast-
ers, Cabinet officers, Senators, or page-boys.
Neither will there be a two or three million dollar
deficit to be made up by forcing corporations to
buy pretty books as was the case after the recent
political campaign.

In lother words the Technocrats of this Con-
tinent are conducting an educational effort of the
first magnitude in a way that would seem to be
impossible, without big money, without support of
the press, without the promise of pecuniary reward
for work done, without ballyhoo. It looks impos-
sible but it's being done.

Howard Scott on this Tour will open up on the
American scene as he has never done before. Head-
quarters has announced that this will be the last
tour conducted in the present manner. Organiza-
tional work at G.H.Q, will be so heavy during 1938
that he will be unable to leave.

Reports from the early meetings indicate that
more people than can be accommodated will want
to hear Howard Scott during this history-making
tour.

(For Tour Itinerary see back page) ,

THE TECHNOCRAT

llvilrologv

In a message to the Senate on August 13th,
President Roosevelt vetoed a joint resolution auth-
orizing Army Kngineers to submit to Congress a
comprehensive system of national Hydrology.
President Roosevelt's message read in part: "In
my message of June 3rd. 1937, I proposed for the
consideration of Congress a thoroughly democratic
process of national planning of the conservation of
the water and related land resources of our coun-
try, I expressed the belief that such a process of
national planning should start at the bottom
through the initiation of planning work in the
State and local units . ■ . . The reverse of such a
process is prescribed in Senate joint resolution No.
57. By this resolution the War Department would
become the national planning agency not alone for
flood control but for all the other multiple uses
of water/'

In May, 1936, Mr. Howard Scott, presenting the
problem of hydrology in Technocracy Magazine,
said: "Technocracy offers gratuitously the gen-
eral specifications for a Continental Hydrology
Control of North America knowing full well that it
is economic suicide under the Price System for any-
one who accepts it. M

And again in July, 1937: "Dare our govern-
ment invest in a Continental Hydrology, a much
needed and tremendous development and control
of the water resources of this continent so that
further hydro-electrical power, water, transporta-
tion and soil preservation may be passed on as our
heritage to the children of the New America,"

As usual the march of events is proving the
correctness of Technocracy's predictions. By the
veto of Resolution Xo. 57 the Price System is serv-
ing notice on the citizens of the North American
Continent that no disinterested development of our
Continental Hydrology will be tolerated. The Price
System realizes the danger in such a development.
The planning of such a program from a strietlv en-
gineering standpoint would generate too many
difficult problems for a Price System government
to cope with. Far better to limit it to sporadic
local puttering under political control "prepared by
all or the many government agencies concerned."

In the light of the President's proposals it
seems clear that a scientifically planned Hydrology
is to be prostituted for the dispensing of political
patronage. While the War Department plan could
never achieve the desired results it is obvious that
here is one more example of the sabotaging of en-
gineering procedure by Price System interference

It must be realized that no amount of national
tinkering will solve our hydrology problem It is
not national but continental in its scope. The
American Technate will install a Continental Hy-
drology when price and price interference have dis-
appeared from the American scene.

Wry I ;uul JpoIiI llrcilgc

Western Engine Corp., Los Angeles, have built
for the Morgan Concentrating Co., Quart site, Ari-
zona, a "dry land gold dredge" for use over dry
placer grounds already worked by old* time miners.
This machine is getting more gold than the old-
timers got. It is a 6-cylinder DS Western Diesel
engine, connected directly to a 150-kitowatt Allis-
Chalmers 220-440 volt, 60-cycle alternator, both
units mounted on a structural steel type base that
digs the ore, the Diesel unit moves along with the
shovel, handling 80 tons of soil an hour

Itailiuiii ! VoiliH-l ion

Recent discovery id radium ore ;tt < iivat Bear
Lake, Canada, has increased the production of this
metal. Radium is always a few degrees warmer
than its surroundings. " It continues to give off
emanations of three kinds for 1,600 years, at
which time the emanations are reduced to a half
of their original energy. It then emanates the
same energy for another 1,600 years, and so on to
eternity, losing half of its strength every 1,600
years. During its lifetime radium gives off 1,000.-
000 times as much energy as burning coal. A
gram of radium equals in energy 3,000 pounds of
coal.

»YV*i|»2i|i« h r Files

Newspaper files that now take up space by the
cubic yard in newspaper offices and libraries can
be squeezed down until a single filing case will hold
the issues of many years, thru the use of microfilm.
Wood-pulp print paper, which crumbles with age.
can now be replaced by photographing every edi-
tion or issue on microfilm of a cellulose acetate or
safety base which is chemically more stable than
good rag record paper and should last at least 100
to 200 years. Thus microfilming is an act of pres-
ervation.

AiiUmiaif if- AfH-oniiliiig

A Bookkeeping and Accounting Machine, Type
IV. manufactured and distributed by International
Business Machinery Co., using punched cards and
electrical contacts, compiles reports, with as much
detail as required, adds, subtracts and prints
totals and balances. It is entirely automatic and
operates at the speed of 150 cards per minute,
with a uniform accuracy which cannot be expected
from a manual or semi-manual procedure. The
human element consists not of an operator but
merely an attendent. Finished reports, which
formerly required days and sometimes weeks to
prepare, are now available in a few hours. <Ed.
Note: See August, 1937, THE TFXTHNOCRAT.
for article on a multiple bank ledger machine. I

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Compiled by BAE CLENDENNING (K.D. 11834-1)

'The auecessfyl bperali >n of eeemorrw sv^-
uti'i ivipinr. thai back of each new unit of pro-
ductive power there be placed a corresponding unit
of consuming power."

Dr, Harold G. Moulton
of Brookings Institute.

" . . . Los Angeles County has completely ex-
hausted its direct relief funds and will soon have
to issue warrants in the sura of $1,700,000 to cover
the existing deficit for this year based on the
basis of the present case load, not counting these
new cases turned over to the County by the State
. , . And greater demands on the county to take
care of such and similar cases will mean necessary
Upplllg of the tax rate to take care of them*"

"East Los Angeles Gazette"
April 13, 1937.

. , ■ "You can look on almost any page (of the
National Resources Committee report) and see
how technology has speeded up the depletion of
natural resources" (such depletion is inevitable
under a Price System) "raised the national income
and DESTROYED EMPLOYMENT/' (The caps
are ours). "Multiply that by the number of pages,
and take it as a fact that something tremendous
is going on, , . We suffer because our technology
and our institutions do not match . , . and you
haven't seen anything yet"

Los Angeles "Daily News", August 6, 1937-

"tf industry could give work to 11,000,000 un
employed it would have done so long ago.**

William J. Cameron, Ford Motor Co

<f The State of California is now the chief land-
lord of the state. More than two million acres of
land once owned by private individuals has revert-
ed to the state for nonpayment of taxes, , . . There
is also in excess of 100.000 city lots, both im-
proved and unimproved, which the state now owns.

San Fernando 'Times 1 ', August 12, 1937.

"If America wants a five-year plan that will
put her ahead five centuries, let her close the White
House and kick every banker and broker and
manufacturer out of every pontificial conference
. , . while a few thousand genuine scientists who
are not Yes- Men for corporations ascertain which
unexploited inventions and discoveries might be
quickly turned to account."

Walter B. Pitkin in "A Short Introduction
to the History of Human Stupidity."

" . . . December 31, 1930 - . . the national debt
stood at $16,026,000,000.'* "For the first 15 days
of this year (1937), the Federal Treasury spent
$204,863,990 MORE than it collected in the first
fifteen days of the same month . . , On July 15
(1937) the Federal debt stood at $36,597,383,347
—more than 3000 million dollars IN EXCESS of
the debt of a year ago**' "On July 28 (1937) the
Federal debt went to a new record high of $36*-
707,757,744;" "The national debt attained an all
time peak of $36,814,414,573 on August 5," (1937)
Los Angeles "Evening Herald-Express"
and "Examiner, 11

"The public debt reached a new record peak of
$36,981,415,047 August 17." (1037)

Los Angeles "Evening Herald- Ex press"
August 19, 1037*

"A Treasury report today (Aug, 26) showed
the debt climbed $51,734,110 on that day to $37,-
021,303,409. The increase resulted largely from 50
million dollar issue of discount bills to bolster the
Treasury's supply of ready cash. The August 25
debt was S3,629,552.553 over that on the same
date a year ago.*'

In the above excerpts note carefully the
steady climb of the figures giving the growth of
the Federal debt. (R CJ

"... science and invention wait for neither
man nor conditions, and their development . . has
much bearing upon the welfare or otherwise of the
citizens of this country. . . . Prof. William F.
Ogburn of the University of Chicago, . * . went on :

•THE MOST IMPORTANT CONCLUSION TO
BE DRAWN FROM THESE STUDIES \ National
Resources Committee) IS THE CONTINUING
GROWTH OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE SOCIAL
STRUCTURE OF THE NATION. AND THE
HAZARD OF ANY PLANNING THAT DOES
NOT TAKE THIS FACT INTO CONSIDERA-
TION.*

When this language is boiled down into the
speech of the man in the street, it merely means
that the increase of mechanical inventions will con-
tinually decrease the opportunity of men and wo-
men to find remunerative labor unless such scien-
tific development is taken into consideration, 11

Los Angeles "Evening Herald-Express,"

July 28, 1937.

"Science and the techniques doom all political
management to decay*"

Waiter B. Pitkin in "A Short Introduction
to the History of Human Stupidity."

THE TECHNOCRAT

>oii-Tcrlmo^r;iis l{\|>osc<l

By NORWIN KERR JOHNSON ( R. D. 11884-3)

We notice that Ernest T. Weir, Chairman of the
National Steel Corporation, is trying his hand as
apologist for the Price System. Trying to "prove**
that machines do not make unemployment, he em-
ployes the old stunt of citing the period between
1899 and 1929, showing that American factories
increased horsepower by mere than 300 per cent t
volume of production by more than 20C per cent
and wages by more than 400 per cent. Why does-
n't he give the figures from 1929 on ? Like Dr-
Anderson in the late Chase National Hank Bulletin,
he doesn't give these figures because they wouldn't
prove his point. We suggest that the writers of
such articles stop trying to kid the public. Give
us pertinent statistics, complete to within a reas-
onable time of the present date, and we will be glad
to listen and consider. But the informed citizen is
getting very tired of listening to the deliberated
misleading wahco of corporate entities with an axe
to grind.

As the available purchasing power of the
American people continues to decline, more and
more pressure must be put on to keep up sales.
Auto merchandising deserves the latest palm. Used
Cars for $1.00 down! It is now possible to drive
your reconditioned used car off the lot for the
trifling expenditure of only one dollar. Terms, an-
nounces the kindly seller, will be "fixed to suit the
income of the purchaser." While we are on the
subject of selling we mustn't forget the banker.
The aspiring debt merchant is also finding the
going a little tough. Bonds can be bought today
on easy term contracts. If you desire a thousand
dollar's worth of these bonds, the bank in question
will be glad to lend you the money with which to
purchase them. And, according to one of the bond
salesman, any time that you find it inconvenient to
make the monthly payment, the bank is required
to make it for you. It is amusing to realize that
a proposition of that kind ten years ago would
have brought the bunko squad on the dead run.

Just as the re-employment ballyhoo was begin-
ning to have some effect, the American Federation
of Labor bobs up again The Federation reports
a weakening of the "post-depression** employment
drive with more than 8,000,000 still out of work.
According to the Federation . . . '*in industry as a
whole there were 139,000 more jobs in June than in
any other month this year; but this June gain
compares with gains of 300,000 to 400,000 in every
previous month, showing that the employment rise
is beginning to wane."

Using the old Price System gag of "Interfere
with the supply and get your price, 11 the Labor
Umcns have been forcing an unofficial share-the-
work program by the pressure of Union demands
for shorter hours. This is largely responsible for
the reported increase in employment. Apparently
even forced employment has run its course.
As the labor unions continue their gang war for
control of the man hours* racket, technology
presses down the scale of employment. It has
been the experience of modern nations that when
wars are over the booty has disappeared. Labor
wars seem to be no exception to the rule.

Prime Minister Aberhart's Social Credit Gov-
ernment is again in difficulties. Pending
the introduction of a Social Credit bill before
the Alberta Legislature a Moratorium on all debt
for six months has been proclaimed and approved.
This action seems to De aimed at the banks, the
insurance companies and other large corporations
who might collect and export money from the prov-
ince before March 1. 1938 when the moratorium
expires. The Social Credit Promise of paying
$25.00 per month to every adult citizen is long over
due. The latest plan for financing this Utopia is
connected with the famous McMurray Tar Sands
in northern Alberta. This deposit of solidified oil
soaked sand is estimated to contain more than
double the world's present known oil supply. By
taking a ten percent royalty on the gas and oil
produced in this area the Social Credit Government
hopes to dig itself out of the hole that nasty Price
System fact has dumped it into. Here's to hoping,
Gentlemen, here's to hoping.

Business failures in the United States seem to
be one of the things picking up under the new
"prosperity." For the week ending August 22nd
they totaled 159 against 153 in the previous week
and 135 in the corresponding week of 1936. Busi-
ness failures thus join Unemployment, the Debt
Load, and Continental malnutrition in the "recov-
ery" parade.

Robert Louis Stevenson's words, "The World
is so full of a number of things . . ■ " etc., reminds
us that now days it seems to be full of contradic-
tions. When we see the ultra conservative "Bugs**
Baer devoting his column to a paen of praise of
the leisure enforcing effects of labor saving mach-
inery, we have every right to feel bewildered. So
many prominent writers and publications today are
reversing their field, printing and writing stuff
that might have come out of a Technocracy publi-
cation, that we expect to see rain falling up any
minute now*.

8 THE TECHNOCRAT

**l 'on vent ion and Ethies* ?

By W W. HARDEN (RJ). 1 1834-3)

During the early part of June, of this year,
the American Medical Association convention
held in Atlantic City, N. J.; was attended by 9,200
of the 150,000 doctors in the United States

Certain measures and reports were presented at
this convention but the event that caused the
greatest furor was the presentation, by a doctor,
of a set of public healtn axioms. In brief, these
were, that Organized Medicine (the A.M. A J ac-
cept certain corollaries: (1) That all of the 150,-
000 doctors become officers in the Federal Public
Health Service. (2) Every person who expected
to be unable to pay his medical and hospital bills
register with a Government bureau which would
pay the bills out *>r tax money. I 3) The Federal
Treasury to pay expenses of all public hospitals,
the deficit of all voluntary and finance construction
of new hospitals. (4) The Federal Treasury pay
the deficits of all first-class medical schools and
subsidize the expansion of medical schools.

To the orthodox doctors the plan was startling.
Doctors are still recognized as part of that species
known ns human beings. That being so, they are
naturally conditioned the same as others of the
.siinic species in their ihuught trends, reactions and
inhibitions, as the result of traditions, supersti-
tions, and folkways handed down Ihru srv-n thous-
and years of civilization. This conditioning is re-
sponsible for the ready reply lo the corollaries pre-
sented. An emotional defensive was hurled at
the offending doctor by the editor of nine A.M. A-
publications; spokesman for medical orthodoxy;
author of three books: ''Syphilis/' "Dirt and
Health 1 ' and 1 'Curiosities of Medicine" and syndi-
cator of a health column to 700 newspapers. The
essence of his lengthy retort can be summarized by
his concluding remark: 14 — and the question which
we must answer for ourselves and for the people
is simply the question as to whether medicine shall
p'mnin a profession or become ;i trad" " And lims
the result of seven thousand years of conditioning
comes as a final punch to his roaring retort. Doc-
tors are also business men, in that they must, thai
the sale of their services, acquire sufficient debt
claims to enable them to secure the physical re-
quisites of life. Whether it be a doctor, lawyer,
beggerman or thief they all must, in whatever
manner they can t acquire as many of the Price
System debt claims as possible to insure social
prestige and continuing existence of themselves
and families, To create an a hi mdunre of medical
care would, by the rules of the Price System, re*
duce the fees and as long as a scarcity can be sus-
tained, the fees can be maintained. Whether it
be called a trade or a profession matters little in
efficient functioning A strange angle to the Amer-
ican Medical Association's continual objection to
an abundance of medical care is that in 1935 the
average doctor's income was around $2,000. We

wonder if that constitutes solely, the classification
as a profession ?

Now to get back to the convention. As might
Oe expected there appeared before them a Price
System product, a politician. This one happened
to be Illinois' Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who
assured the convention that he would take care of
tnem in the parlous legislative future. When a
parade becomes organized and starts its march
there is always a politician who senses the occa-
sion and runs out in the front to convey the idea
that he is leading it. And so it was with Senator
Lewis; running out before the parade of doctors
(and publicity) at their convention to let his con-
stituents know he is still looking out for their
welfare.

Other angles which brought themselves to the
front in the two days and a night of wrangling
were : What would Doctors get out of this ? What
would their patients get? Who would run U, S.
medicine? A sentimental sociologist like Secretary
of Labor Perkins, a political Relief Administrator
like Mr. Hopkins, a doctor like Surgeon General
Parran, or a medical oligarchy headed by the A,
M. A/s Secretary-General Manager, their Lobbyist
and Editor ? Under a Price System such questions
naturally come to the minds of the doctors con-
vening as they do to a person when he reads or
he;irs, for the first time, of the design erf Tech-
nocracy, Inc. This reasoning, being the result of
previous conditioning, is the response of the mind
thinking in Price System terms and reactions,
when focussed upon a question of this nature.

Under a Price System we will never have an
abundance of medical care any more than we will
have an abundance of any other goods and ser-
vices. Since the basic tenet of a Price System is
to maintain a scarcity, as soon as an abundance
not only beomes apparent but most probable, then
the means of distribution cease to function, since
the medium of exchange is one of interference,
The distribution of all goods and services, if this
continent of peoples is to continue to exist, can
only be accomplished by a medium of distribution
that is based on metrical determinants, free from
interference and distributed equally to all citizens
in the operating area.

Nurses, thru their protective organizations,
must also create a scarcity to maintain price. Some
of the "ethical" means of doing this is to prohibit
a married woman to take a case; raise the " stand -
;u ds" for entrance to a training school; different-
iating reciprocity between states as to the require-
ments of graduate nurses, etc. These traditional
maneuvers tend, by the maintaining of a scarcity
of nurses, to keep the price of duty hours up and
enable only a portion of graduate nurses to use
thai knowledge and experience that they have
spent years in acquiring and perfecting Those

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nurses not employed are such, not because other
humans are so physically well, nor because those
nurses no longer desire to go on a case, but because
of two interfering factors of the Price System;
lack of purchasing power in the hands of those
needing medical attention and the continual "ethi-
cal" means of creating a scarcity of nurses.

Technocracy, Inc., realizes only to j well that
no politial government on this Continent has either
the courage or the structural facility to institute
a Continental Health and Medical Service as pro-
posed in the blueprint of The Technate of America*
which includes in part, compulsory physical exam-
inations of all citizens every six months ; the appli-
cation of preventative as well as curative medicine
in diseases, etc. When the Governments of the
United States and Canada as a last attempt at sal-
vation, are compelled by the exigencies of the tech-
nological advance to use the still existing abund-
ance of credit, our national economics will have
shot their last calamity.

Technocracy will supply their requiem.

Drinking Wail or

By PAUL THOMAS, (RD. 11834-4)

During the world's fair in Chicago in 1933
there were forty-one deaths from several hundred
cases of amoebic dysentery. There were sporadic
cases of this disease found in about two hundred
cities thruout the Unilrd Slates carried there by
people who had visited the fair, It was later prov-
en that over one thousand employees of two hotels
in Chicago were carriers, thus endangering the
health and lives of their own families and many of
their friends.

This condition was caused by improperly in-
stalled or maintained plumbing. When the waste
pipe leading from a bath tub, lavatory, or toilet be-
comes clogged, it is possible, under conditions that
frequently occur in all buildings, for waste matter
or liquids from such fixture to be syphoned back
into the water pipe, thus polluting the drinking
water of the building.

It is possible to correct this condition in all
buildings, but many property owners, if forced by
law to make the correction, would be in financial
difficulty, with a mortgage already equal to or
larger than the present worth of their holding.

Other cases as serious as that of Chicago,
have occured in many parts of the country. Any
city that does not want to lose her transient trade,
will keep such information from public knowledge,
For this reason we heard little or nothing of the
Chicago contagion until after the exposition had
come to a close and tracing of the disease had
began.

You may ask, what has ail this to do with
Technocracy? Under a Technate, interference be-
ing a thing of the past, the plumbing industry
would have nothing to consider but the welfare of
the citizens. Exhaustive tests of different types
of plumbing installations have been conducted in

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the past few years by competent men ; the cause and
remedy of dangerous conditions are well known,
but the full correction of this situation will never
be made under a Price System because it would be
financially ruinous to too many people. Under a
Technate there will be but one kind of plumbing —
the best that the Division of Research can design.

(Editor's Note): Good plumbing was hailed as
an outstanding factor in the protection of the
health of the individual and community by Dr.
Clifford E. Waller, Assistant Surgeon of the
United States Public Health Service, in an address
at the recent convention of the National Associa-
tion of Master Plumbers in Atlantic City.*' Taken
from The Los Angeles Evening Herald and Ex-
press of July 10, 1937.

MOVIES

"31 1% IHh'iIk iim-s To Town"

0 Reviewed by a Technocrat . . -

This is a •••• Price System display.

First — The picture exhibits that grand old
American chance-in-a-hundred-million, often dig-
nified by the names of Incentive and Rugged In*
dividual Ism r for which the other 999.999,999 are
willing to starve.

Second The one man in the play whu was
considered insane was the young hero who inherit-
ed 20 million dollars but wanted to give it away be-
cause he was not predatory and did not care to
start a corporation. The character and behavior
of every other person in the play was distorted by
his desire to grab some of Mr. Deed's money.

Third — The lawyers were willing to say or do
any thing to get their hands on some of the money.

Fourth — The great alienist, a physician proved
(for a fee) that anyone who tooted a tuba and
wanted to give away twenty million dollars is cer-
tainly a victim of Dementia Praecox.

Fifth — "The Girl' 1 of the piece double-crossed
the man she loved because her newspaper editor
promised her two week's vacation with pay!

Sixth — The hero demonstrated effectively that
the possession of twenty million dollars is only
a headache anyway and that life can be pleasanter
with plenty rather than with too much.

Seventh — The testimony of two old maids who
were really ^pixillated*' was accepted in a court of
law to prove that the hero was "pixillated."

Eighth — The judge did manage to save the
good name of the court by deciding the case on
comman sense rather than* on legal technicalities.
Based upon testimony accepted by the court up to
that point, a sane, normal, American citizen could
have gone to the insane asylum.

Note:- — After the Technate has been estab-
lished we must show this picture to our children to
illustrate how dreadful was human behavior in the
good old days of rugged individualism— before
Technocracy.

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"l^t *» Got Married"

In this picture a bit of Technocracy hits the
screen. The conflict of the plot consists of the
interference by politicians with the functioning of
the Weather Bureau. The main concern of the po-
litical bosses was the arrangement of trades of
controlled votes in an election campaign for judges.
The final choice of these "statesmen*' for judge
was a politician whose own mother declared he was
bniinkss

The main concern of the meteorologist was to
get an increased appropriation of money to make
the Weather Bureau more efficient. Finally the
be-e-utiful daughter of the political boss, through
love lor something) for the scientist, told him she
would influence her father to arrange for an in-
crease in the budget. The movie censor actually
allowed the meteorologist to say that he knew that
a politician wouldn't give the shine off his pants to
help the Weather Bureau, and further that politi-
cians didn't know anything, and finally ( and to our
amazement) that when scientists get into control,
politicians will be as extinct as the Dodo.

This is good propaganda for technological con-
trol. But, undoubtedly* most of the audience miss-
ed the point. They probably concluded about as
follows: "Dcn't be a poor oid scientist who can't
get any money — be a politician and get the dough/'

*H hIimI E m |»Ii»v incur*

Technocrats and others who deplore the supine-
ness of the Price System control in permitting the
creation of an American Sahara Desert in our mid-
dle Western states are overlooking another oppor-
tunity for capitalizing calamity. Properly han-
dled, this tragedy of erosive neglect may yet solve
our unemployment problem. Think of the possi-
bilities! For tne proper handling of this vast new
desert terrain camels will become necessary. The
care and breeding of camels will become our latest
industry absorbing millions of unemployed. It has
been unreliably established that at least five men
working eight hours are needed to service the av-
erage camel. In order to build up a demand for
these beasts it is proposed to convert the slogan
of that great Price System engineer to read "two
camels in, every tent."

l>v providing an easy payment pJan for the pur-
chase of these animals, employment can be found
for thousands of salesmen who can work the:r way
through college on camel back. However, this is
-only scratching the surface.

In order to feed the camels, dates will have to
be grown. WPA workers now leaning on shovels
can be transported to the American Sahara to lean
on date palms. The dates will feed the camels and

the camels will er — — ah supply nourishment

to the date palms. The thousands of unemployed
actors now wasting their talents in Hollywood and
New York can be engaged as sheiks t < supply that
desert atmosphere for the benefit of the millions of
tourists who will flock to the new Garden of Allah.

We have, so far, failed to mention the most
interesting part of the whole program. From the
myriad Fascist groups existing on this continent
today, a Foreign Legion would be recruited to pa-
trol the American Sahara. This would provide
these individuals with the opportunity to wear pe-
culiar looking uniforms and engage "in drills, pa-
rades and the useless sort of martial display in-
dulged in today only by the more rococo type of
secret society.

Look for the Associated Desert Supply Manu-
facturers billboards. They show a tent on a stretch
of golden sand. A sturdy American descends from
his camel to greet his happy family. Caption:
The A rid- American Way.

ACTIVITIES

Farads

A New I'se of an Old Word . . .

In electrical terminology a farad is the unit of
capacity of condensers. In organizational termin-
ology FARAD now designates a member of Tech-
nocracy, Inc., who is under twenty-one years of
age. It replaces the word Monad formerly used as
the name of the junior Technocrats, The word
Monad now represents solely the emblem of Tech-
nocracy, Inc.

The first area organizational meeting for Far-
ads was held on Sept. 2nd, at Section 7. Informa-
tion on future meetings may be obtained at 1866 W.
Santa Barbara Ave . bv mail or phone (VErmont
1844).

Application forms, functional designation
blanks, and complete by-laws and genera' regula-
tions have been issued by G-H.Q.

Glendora Glendon Schrager has been appointed
lyy the R. D. Board as Farad advisor and organizer.

The Farads are all set u to go to town" and will
soon be setting the pace for adult sections. One
of their most important and interesting activities
will be short-wave radio communication, A new
class for operators will soon be started and any
who are anxious to get in at the beginning and
learn radio from the ground up are urged to sign
up for this class.

$|M»iikt»rs

The Division of Public Speaking has outlined
an important program for its next meeting on
Sunday, September 26th, All section governors
of public speaking and all authorized speakers will
be present* Also each governor will take to the
meeting all who are training to be public speakers
and will have the latter fully prepared with five or
ten minute speeches to be delivered and construc-
tively criticized at this meeting, which will con-
vene promptly at 7:30 P. M. p Sept. 26th at 1866 W.
Santa Barbara Ave. ATTENTION GOVERNORS
. , AND PREPARE!

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FINANCE

Ifii'iliM-oiiaif * lowered

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York on
Wednesday, August 26, announced a reduction in
its rediscount rate from 1 J 1> per cent to 1 per cent.
This rate will become effective on August 27th.
The rate of l 1 L * percent was established on Febru-
ary 2 t 1934, when it was reduced from 2 percent

It is significant that not only has the Federal
Government in the guise of the Federal Reserve
Bank cut the interest rate on rediscounts so that
the buying of Government Securities might be en-
couraged, but in the guise of the Federal Treasury
it has also increased the interest rate on Federal
securities thus providing another incentive for ac-
quiring these obligations. The July 15th issue of
$400,000,000 carrying V\i percent represents an
increase of 1 - of 1 per cent return on long term
investments. Owing to the si2e of the government
debt load, more inducement must be offered to the
investors. It is probable, however, that the in-
ducement is a blind, and that the increase is in-
tended only to ease the pressure of interest pay-
ments to depositors necessitated by the large idle
deposits that the banks are holding at the present
time. Today, business conditions are such that
the continual buying of government securities by
the banks is iht< ssnrv in order to maintain the en-
luc business striK tun T] tr , barrage of myth now
current in banking circles arises from this fact

It seems plain that government securities will
continue to be purchased by the banks until such
time as the banking structure is unable to absorb
any m&ore of such low income producing obliga-
tions. As Howard Scott has pointed out. whenever
the banks of the United States reach the point
where 60 per cent of their assets are in the form of
government securities they will be faced with the
choice of either liquidating their affairs or of sell-
ing to the government. At the present time the
banks' race has very nearly been run.

Hazardous Blanks

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Authorized Speakers
SEPTEMBER—

0 13th— William E. Miller— Long IJeaeh Y, W.
A. — R,D,-1 1833-Prov.

0 15TH — Nonvln Kerr Johnson — 211 E. Hershey
Ave., Wilmar— R.D. 11834-4.

9 >7th — Forrest K Wvsoiig— Loiiu Iteaeh Y. \\
C. A. — R.D. 11834-Prov.

Official Literature

The list of area magazines and official literature
of Technocracy, Inc., has been omitted from this
issue through lack of space. Readers are referred
to current issues of other area magazines.

TEUIXH K U Y I'KESS

1866 W. Santa Barbara Ave not Los An fries, Calif.

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Personal Calling Cards with MONAD in Colors
Sec Lion Cards
Post Cards in colors
Blotters Section Address or GHQ
Letter Heads, Continental Standard
Envelopes, Continental Standard
Section Announcement Cards
Leaflets

Technocracy MONAD SEALS in Colors

"Nearly 3000 banks within the federal deposit
insurance program lack sufficient capital, a PRI-
VATE REPORT" (the caps are ours) "of the Fed-
eral Deposit Insurance Corporation revealed to da v.
Uune 21)

. , . at the close of 1936 more than 10 per cent
of the assets of many banks receiving -deposit In-
surance was 'hazardous and undesirable 1 . .

Between 2000 and 3000 insured banks reported
net current operating earnings last year which
were not sufficient to take care of the average
volume of losses expected. . ( . Of the non-member
Federal Reserve Banks receiving insurance bene-
fits, 3 per cent possessed no sound capital at all,
and f approximately 100 per cent of the non-mem-
ber group had an exceedingly low margin of capi-
tal in reserve against deposits,"

Howard Sroli

Shrine Auditorium
I .os Angles* 4'nlir.

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NovciiiIm'i* •tplll

(3:80 P M.)

ADMISSION Tickets on Sale

£5c and 40c At AU Sections

HOWARD SCOTT

CONTINENTAL TOUR - FAll 1»37

Cleveland, Ohio -- August 22

Chicago, 111. - " 24

Appleton, Wise — - - - " 26

Pt Arthur, Ont. " 29

Ft William - H 30

Winnipeg, Man. — - Sept 1 3 2, 3

Brandcn, Man, , - 4

Yorkton, Sask. - 5

Melville, Sask. ...... - - 6

Regina, Sask. -- '*

Moose Jaw, Sask 9

Saskatoon, Sask "10,11

Frince Albert, „.„—.... " 12

North Battleford ™, " 13

Lloydminster — - 14

Vegreville, Alia. — — - ■* IS

Edmonton, Alta - "1^17

Sylvan Lake, Alta. " 1 §

Red Deer, Alta. - " 18

Dmmheller, Alta, - -- " 19

Calgary, Alta, - ~ " 20

Banff, Alta, - * 21

Calgary, Alta. — M 22

Medicine Hat, Alta. „ - . " 23

Lethbridge, Alta ...... " 2*

Coleman, Alta. — . ^- " 25

Great Falls, Mont -- " 27

Helena, Mont, " 28

Butte, Mont .... * 29

Idaho Falls, Idaho .l - 30

PocateUo, Idaho October 1

Ogden, Utah - 2

Salt Lake City, Utah " 3, 4

Twin Falls, Idaho " ' 5

Boise, Idaho - 8

Lewiston, Idaho — T

Coeur d'AIene, Idaho 8

Spokane, Washington a JI 9

Cranbrook, B. C. " 10

Kimberly, B. C .-- ' " 11

Nelson, B. C ... M 12

Trail, B, C - " 13

Penticton, B. C. ... M 15

Kelowna, B. C- " 16

Vernon, B. C " 17

Salmon Arm, B. C " 18

Kamlcops, B. C - " 19

Chilliwack, B. C, 20

Vancouver, B. C. ..- " 21

Victoria, B. C "22,23

Port Alberni, B- C. M 24

Nanaimo, B. & " 25

Vancouver, B, C " 26

New Westminster, B. C + _ ?l 27

Vancouver, E, C ....„.„ * 28

Bellingham, Washington ._ - " 29

East Stanwood, Washington " 30

Everett, Washington ? . —.. 51 31

Seattle, Washington Nov, 1, 2, 3

Fuyallup, Washington 4

Tacoma, Washington . . 5

Vancouver, Washington .~~ " 10

Portland, Oregon "11,12

Salem, Oregon „. " 13

Eugene, Oregon " 14

Medford, Oregon — n 15

San Francisco Bay District,

etc., Nov. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21

Fresno, California " 22

Bakers field, California .. " 23

Hinkley, California " 24

Las Vegas, Nevada, and

Boulder Dam

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Los Angeles Nov 2$, 29, 30, Dec. 1

Santa Barbara, California ..

■ Fontana, Ontario Area —

San Bernardino, California

San Diego, California -

Yuma (tentative)

Arrive in Phoenix, Arizona

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